Object getting launched is getting stuck on the mouse cursor and following it

So what do you need help with exactly? If you want the bullets to always follow the crosshair, don't you then want them to clump up around it? What do you want otherwise?

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I'm making a game with a shootable machine gun in it, but when I use "launch object" to launch a bullet in the direction of the crosshair (the crosshair is always at mouseX and mouseY), the bullets get stuck and they clump up. The bullets also follow the crosshair like a guided missile and don't go in a straight line. I want to have the bullets act like bullets and go in a straight line and go through the crosshair.

Without seeing your code I'm taking a guess here and you've got them always looking at mouseX/mouseY - instead of that, you could make it so when the bullet is created the bullet's alterable values A/B are set to mouseX and mouseY and they look at those values instead. Hope that makes sense!

It takes a little bit of vector math - but this is how you get the missile to always look in a certain direction (If you're using the built in movements)
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VAngle finds the angle of a vector (in this case, two points). This gives a direction in degrees, but since there are 360 degrees and only 32 directions, you have to divide it by 320/32, which is 11.25

Here's the sample code if this makes it easier
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try to use Bullet widget. Please login to see this link.